Thanks all for your quick votes! Tav
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 01:45 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Votes: > > Josh Andler a. > Jon A. Cruz a. > Bryce Harrington a. > Ted Gould a. > Tavmjong Bah (recused) > > Resolution: > > The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG > meeting for a total of up to $900. > > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:22:35AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Proposal: > > > > [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as > > outlined below, for a total of up to $900. > > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > > > > Votes: > > > > Josh Andler > > Jon A. Cruz > > Bryce Harrington > > Ted Gould > > Tavmjong Bah (recused) > > > > Resolution: > > > > The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG > > meeting for a total of up to $900. > > > > > > Background: > > > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group > > meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015. > > > > The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2 > > specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At > > this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or > > moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke > > and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me > > to be present in person to make sure that features important to > > Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not > > dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without > > warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the > > SVG 2 specification. > > > > Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was > > able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in > > gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are > > represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features > > quickly to the their browsers. > > > > > > Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: > > > > https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ > > > > My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at: > > > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/sydney_2015.html > > > > and a meeting report at: > > > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226 > > > > Approximate cost for Linkoping > > > > Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450 > > 5 nights lodging/meals: $450 > > > > > > BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 > > and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's > > meeting): > > > > 2015: Sydney $2250 > > > > 2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) > > London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) > > Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting) > > > > > > Tavmjong Bah > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-board mailing list > > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
